Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: I just found out I like OTR comedy

I usually just listen to old time radio mysteries, but the other day I listened to a few episodes of Father Knows Best. I found myself laughing out loud. I never thought I'd enjoy the comedy show this much.

What are more real funny old time radio comedy shows that you think are good?

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: I just found out I like OTR comedy

Brad wrote:

I usually just listen to old time radio mysteries, but the other day I listened to a few episodes of Father Knows Best. I found myself laughing out loud. I never thought I'd enjoy the comedy show this much.

What are more real funny old time radio comedy shows that you think are good?

Brad

Come on now, 168 views and no one has a comedy show they like?
You know you want to post. Go ahead, it's fun We really do want to hear from you!

My very favorite show is OUR MISS BROOKS. I have most of the episodes memorized and never get tired of listening to them over and over. Some of the episodes are just too funny. I do also really like FATHER KNOWS BEST and OZZIE AND HARRIET and THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE and FIBBER McGEE and MOLLY and MY FRIEND IRMA and DUFFY'S TAVERN and ARCHIE ANDREWS.

There are some shows I have recently learned about. One of them is THE SMITHS OF HOLLYWOOD.

My top favorite after years of listening is the Bickersons. I find myself laughing outloud over and over to that show! Then, I love Burns and Allen. Jack Benny has funny moments but his television show definitely beat the jokes on the radio show, although he was a huge hit. If you love I love Lucy, then My Favorite Husband will crack you up, thats where they got most of the tv scripts from!
Happy Listening...its a wonderful hobby and I also love SciFi(X-1 and Suspense are my two favorites) but its great to laugh once in a while!
Janet

I think I enjoy the comedy shows the most. I like a lot of the ones that have already been mentioned in this thread, but probably the comedy I like the most of all is Our Miss Brooks. That might not be a secret if you notice my avator. I also find The Aldridge Family and Father Knows Best really funny. I really like Archie Andrews, too. Daryl already mentioned the Smiths of Hollywood, but I listen to that a lot, too.

Try "Phil Harris & Alice Faye." Others already mentioned that I would also recommend are "Fibber McGee & Molly", "Our Miss Brooks". Also Love "Bob Hope," "Jack Benny" and "Burns and Allen." The list can easily become a very long one.

My favorite is Red Skelton, the King of inneundo. He could make a risque comment that would have you laughing five minutes after he said it. He would do it without uttering one four letter word. He always struck me as a gentle soul. And his closing line- "Good night and may God bless" was always said with a genuine quality that left me feeling better.

"My Favorite Husband" is a fave of mine. Stars Lucille Ball and her character is very similar to her Lucy Ricardo character from "I Love Lucy".

Although it's not a radio show per se, I also like Moran & Mack's "Two Black Crows" comedy records from the late '20s. It's sort of a forerunner of "Amos 'n' Andy"--very politically incorrect by today's standards--but if you can get past the minstrel show premise, or at least accept it as an artifact of its era, it's pretty darned funny in a corny sort of way.

"My Favorite Husband" is a fave of mine. Stars Lucille Ball and her character is very similar to her Lucy Ricardo character from "I Love Lucy".

Although it's not a radio show per se, I also like Moran & Mack's "Two Black Crows" comedy records from the late '20s. It's sort of a forerunner of "Amos 'n' Andy"--very politically incorrect by today's standards--but if you can get past the minstrel show premise, or at least accept it as an artifact of its era, it's pretty darned funny in a corny sort of way.

Edwin (Human),

Thanks for the donation of the Moran & Mack shows. They're in the members directory if anyone would like to give them a listen.

My all time favorite is Fibber McGee and Molly. Second favorite Jack Benny.
Of course I love all the old time radio shows but Fibber is still the best. That show has made me laugh thru good times and bad over the last 30 years. I don't know how anybody could say they can't stand Fib! But, everybody's different!

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: I just found out I like OTR comedy

Brad wrote:

I usually just listen to old time radio mysteries, but the other day I listened to a few episodes of Father Knows Best. I found myself laughing out loud. I never thought I'd enjoy the comedy show this much.

What are more real funny old time radio comedy shows that you think are good?

Brad

Too many to mention as the greatest comedians of all time were all on OTR.

My favorites; Any thing with Groucho Marx in it. Listen to the "You Bet your Life" shows. But also Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Red Skelton, Edgar Burgen and Charlie McCarthy and that's just off the top of my head.

The more shows you listen to the funnier they get, because you get to experience the character development and, especially with shows like Benny, are usually privy to the 'inside' humor that relates back to previous shows.

Fibber McGee and Molly (Easily the best comedy around. It's funny, punny and the list of characters really makes the show comparable to "The Simpsons" - at least that's what I'd say if I were writing a book about the show.)

Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show - Not so funny but it's always very entertaining to see what kind of mess they are going to get themselves into.

Baby Snooks - I can't help but LOL listening to this show.

Great Gildersleeve (with Harold Peary - not the William Waterman episodes half-way through the series)

Milton Berle (very underrated show; has a lot of ad-libbing humor and the recurring characters are wonderful)

I'm kind of in the opposite camp- I've always loved the radio comedies, and have only recently discovered I like the drama and mystery shows as well.

I love most of the comedy shows listed here that I've heard.

Phil Harris is such a favorite radio personality of mine I'm able to overlook the flaws of his show and just enjoy them. It's also because I like that Phil and Alice were such an interesting couple in real life- I like how they both stuck together and Alice pretty much gave up her movie career to do what they both enjoyed.

There are a few episodes I've heard that capture Phil's more adult-oriented audience warm up before the show that I consider priceless.

Of course my all-time favorite is Lum and Abner.

I've never heard Father Knows Best- I'll have to give that one a listen. Also, I've only ever heard a small handful of Fibber McGee and Molly. I'll have to delve more into that show. It's great having stuff to look forward to listening to.

I'm kind of in the opposite camp- I've always loved the radio comedies, and have only recently discovered I like the drama and mystery shows as well.

I love most of the comedy shows listed here that I've heard.

Phil Harris is such a favorite radio personality of mine I'm able to overlook the flaws of his show and just enjoy them. It's also because I like that Phil and Alice were such an interesting couple in real life- I like how they both stuck together and Alice pretty much gave up her movie career to do what they both enjoyed.

There are a few episodes I've heard that capture Phil's more adult-oriented audience warm up before the show that I consider priceless.

Of course my all-time favorite is Lum and Abner.

I've never heard Father Knows Best- I'll have to give that one a listen. Also, I've only ever heard a small handful of Fibber McGee and Molly. I'll have to delve more into that show. It's great having stuff to look forward to listening to.

Robert Tetley (Julias Abruzio in the Phil Harris Show) was an older teen (I believe) on the Phil Harris Show. He was quite an actor.

He's a regular on the Great Gildersleeve show and he's very talented and funny. I also have heard him do guest appearances on other shows, like FIbber & Molly.